Tornadoes · United States · Ohio · 2025
EF0 tornado, Sandusky County, Ohio, April 2, 2025
This EF0 tornado ran 0.7 miles across Sandusky County on April 2, 2025, touching down at 12:13 AM EDT and reaching 15 yards wide. It killed nobody, and did $15,000 of property damage.
The rating scale
Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.
EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.
The record
- Rating
- EF0
- Date
- April 2, 2025
- Touchdown
- 12:13 AM EDT (04:13 UTC)
- Lifted
- 12:14 AM EDT (04:14 UTC)
- On the ground
- 1 minutes
- Path length
- 0.7 miles (1.2 km)
- Path width
- 15 yards (14 m)
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $15,000
- County
- Sandusky County
- Touchdown point
- 41.321, -83.042
- Lift-off point
- 41.326, -83.030
- Record number
- 2504022213-01
The warnings
No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.
The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 01:16 UTC and running to 04:58 UTC.
| Issued (UTC) | Expired | Product | Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | 16:41 UTC | Flood Watch | CLE |
| 01:16 UTC | 04:58 UTC | Tornado Watch | CLE |
| 03:43 UTC | 04:30 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE |
| 04:19 UTC | 04:34 UTC | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE |
| 05:34 UTC | 17:26 UTC | Flood Warning | CLE |
Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.
The forecast that day
The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Enhanced Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 00:55 UTC.
SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.
The air that afternoon
The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.
Detroit, MI (KDTX), 00:00Z
4.2 hours before the tornado, 159 km from the path. April 3, 2025.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69975 J/kg
- Surface CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 994 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1061 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
- 0-3 km lapse rate
- 0.8 K/km
Detroit, MI (KDTX), 12:00Z
7.8 hours after it, 159 km from the path. April 3, 2025.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12687 J/kg
- Surface CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1388 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 94 kt
- 0-1 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
- 0-3 km lapse rate
- 4.4 K/km
The surface observations
Fremont (S24), 3 km from the path, in the two hours either side.
| Time (UTC) | Temp (°F) | Dew point (°F) | Wind | Gust (kt) | Pressure (mb) | Weather |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02:35 UTC | 73.4 | 64.4 | 190° 19 kt | 27 | 1002.7 | |
| 02:55 UTC | 73.4 | 62.6 | 190° 22 kt | 34 | 1002.4 | |
| 03:15 UTC | 75.2 | 62.6 | 190° 18 kt | 29 | 1002.7 | VCTS |
| 03:55 UTC | 71.6 | 64.4 | 190° 16 kt | 26 | 1002.4 | -RA |
| 04:15 UTC | 71.6 | 64.4 | 230° 38 kt | 50 | 1005.1 | VCTS RA HZ |
| 04:35 UTC | 66.2 | 64.4 | 240° 24 kt | 42 | 1006.4 | VCTS RA BR |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 04:11 UTC.
Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track
Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.
What was reported nearby
Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.
| Time (UTC) | Report | Where | County | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03:45 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Se Findlay | Hancock, OH | Poles downed at intersection of OH Route 37 and County Road 180. Time estimated via radar. |
| 03:45 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | Bairdstown | Wood, OH | large tree down on home. time estimated via radar. |
| 03:45 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | North Baltimore | Wood, OH | large tree fell onto a house resulting in structural damage. time estimated via radar. |
| 03:49 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Ssw Vanlue | Hancock, OH | Tree downed at County Road 197 and Township Road 167 on south side of Vanlue. Time estimated via radar. |
| 03:52 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 3 E Wharton | Wyandot, OH | Trailer blown over along County Route 47, near the junction with County Route 96. |
| 03:53 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 3 W Fostoria | Hancock, OH | Seventeen rail cars and associated shipping containers were blown over. Time estimated via radar. |
| 03:55 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 1 N Bowling Green | Wood, OH | dispatch reports trees and power poles down across roadway. time estimated via radar. |
| 03:55 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | Carey | Wyandot, OH | Tractor trailer blown-over in Carey. Time estimated via radar. |
| 03:56 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | Findlay | Hancock, OH | Large tree down and blocking road at Main/West Main. |
| 03:59 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 1 N Upper Sandusky | Wyandot, OH | Tree split near Upper Sandusky High School. Time estimated via radar. |
| 04:05 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 2 S Pemberville | Wood, OH | Tree limbs down on property due to thunderstorm winds. |
| 04:05 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | Pemberville | Wood, OH | Large tree uprooted. Time estimated via radar. |
| 04:15 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Wnw Woodville | Wood, OH | Semi truck blown on its side on SR 23 blocking all lanes. time estimated via radar. |
| 04:15 UTC | TSTM WND GST 58 | 3 W Clyde | Sandusky, OH | AWOS station KS24 3 NNE Green Springs. |
| 04:17 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | Elmore | Ottawa, OH | Tree down on wires at 400 block of Fremont St. |
| 04:17 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | Elmore | Ottawa, OH | Window blown out of apt building at State Street/Elmore. |
| 04:19 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Wnw Clyde | Sandusky, OH | Roof blown off barn. |
| 04:19 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Wnw Clyde | Sandusky, OH | Semi Truck blown on its side at US20/CR220 blocking intersection. |
| 04:20 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 5 E Oak Harbor | Ottawa, OH | downed tree across roadway. time estimated via radar. |
| 04:25 UTC | TSTM WND GST 59 | 5 Nw Wayne | Wood, OH | Mesonet station AW078 BOWLING GREEN. |
| 04:25 UTC | TORNADO | 3 Wnw Clyde | Sandusky, OH | An EF-0 tornado touched down near Highway 20 and Flora Road. It struck two barns. scattering barn roof debris on and north of Highway 20. |
| 04:28 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ese Castalia | Erie, OH | Bardshar Rd between Bogart Rd and Miller Rd closed due to a downed power pole and powerlines in roadway. Time estimated via radar. |
| 04:30 UTC | TSTM WND DMG | 3 N Bay View | Ottawa, OH | power poles down in the road. time estimated via radar. |
| 04:30 UTC | MARINE TSTM WIND 53 | 5 Wnw Port Clinton | Ottawa, OH | Mesonet station CMPO1 4 WNW Port Clinton. |
| 04:40 UTC | MARINE TSTM WIND 47 | 1 Ssw South Bass Island | Ottawa, OH | Mesonet station SBIO1 9 NE Port Clinton. |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.
This ground now
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The other tornadoes of April 2, 2025
87 more were confirmed in the United States that day.
| Date | Time | Rating | Where | Path (mi) | Width (yd) | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2 | 5:13 AM CDT | EF1 | Osage, OK | 3.7 | 250 | $10,000 | ||
| April 2 | 6:37 AM CDT | EF1 | Tulsa, OK | 10.7 | 600 | $575,000 | ||
| April 2 | 7:29 AM CDT | EF2 | Vernon, MO | 6.5 | 200 | $500,000 | ||
| April 2 | 7:30 AM CDT | EF1 | Vernon, MO | 16.6 | 200 | $1.2 million | ||
| April 2 | 8:34 AM CDT | EF2 | Cooper, MO | 6.1 | 200 | $100,000 | ||
| April 2 | 11:00 AM MST | Unrated | Maricopa, AZ | 0.5 | 5 | |||
| April 2 | 3:13 PM CDT | EF3 | Crawford, MO | 21.9 | 200 | $685,000 | ||
| April 2 | 3:16 PM CDT | EF1 | Howell, MO | 1.1 | 350 | $10,000 | ||
| April 2 | 3:40 PM CDT | EF0 | Logan, IL | 12.7 | 30 | |||
| April 2 | 4:21 PM CDT | EF0 | Madison, TN | 1.9 | 150 | $50,000 | ||
| April 2 | 5:00 PM CDT | EF1 | Iroquois, IL | 2.3 | 400 | |||
| April 2 | 5:05 PM CDT | EF2 | Bond, IL | 22.8 | 200 | 1 | $385,000 | |
| April 2 | 5:09 PM CDT | EF0 | Iroquois, IL | 2.2 | 300 | |||
| April 2 | 5:32 PM CDT | EF1 | Ripley, MO | 1.1 | 125 | $185,000 | ||
| April 2 | 5:56 PM CDT | EF2 | Randolph, AR | 24.6 | 500 | $250,000 | ||
| April 2 | 5:56 PM CDT | EF2 | Arkansas, AR | 8.3 | 100 | |||
| April 2 | 5:59 PM CDT | EF1 | Poinsett, AR | 7.5 | 400 | $50,000 | ||
| April 2 | 6:08 PM CDT | EF1 | Effingham, IL | 2.5 | 125 | |||
| April 2 | 6:13 PM CDT | EF2 | Wayne, MO | 8.3 | 175 | $630,000 | ||
| April 2 | 6:21 PM CDT | EF1 | Arkansas, AR | 0.9 | 50 | |||
| April 2 | 6:23 PM CDT | EF1 | Effingham, IL | 8.3 | 100 | |||
| April 2 | 6:26 PM CDT | EF3 | Poinsett, AR | 24.2 | 1,500 | 8 | $4.0 million | |
| April 2 | 6:28 PM CDT | EF2 | Craighead, AR | 14.4 | 700 | $750,000 | ||
| April 2 | 6:29 PM CDT | EF0 | Cumberland, IL | 4.0 | 150 | |||
| April 2 | 6:32 PM CDT | EF2 | Stoddard, MO | 14.7 | 600 | $20 million | ||
| April 2 | 6:33 PM CDT | EF2 | Cumberland, IL to IN | 48.9 | 1,200 | $200,000 | ||
| April 2 | 6:36 PM CDT | EF1 | Butler, MO | 13.4 | 125 | $2.0 million | ||
| April 2 | 6:40 PM CDT | EF0 | Poinsett, AR | 6.5 | 75 | $20,000 | ||
| April 2 | 6:48 PM CDT | EF1 | Lafayette, AR | 7.6 | 250 | $135,000 | ||
| April 2 | 7:52 PM EDT | EF1 | Marshall, IN | 17.8 | 175 | $610,000 | ||
| April 2 | 6:56 PM CDT | EF1 | Cape Girardeau, MO to IL | 8.0 | 150 | $765,000 | ||
| April 2 | 7:02 PM CDT | EF1 | Clark, IL | 8.1 | 200 | |||
| April 2 | 7:08 PM CDT | EF1 | Union, IL | 10.0 | 50 | $35,000 | ||
| April 2 | 7:17 PM CDT | EF1 | Lafayette, AR | 0.3 | 75 | $50,000 | ||
| April 2 | 8:24 PM EDT | EF1 | Parke, IN | 10.8 | 120 | $200,000 | ||
| April 2 | 7:25 PM CDT | EF0 | Union, IL | 1.1 | 25 | $5,000 | ||
| April 2 | 7:30 PM CDT | EF1 | Scott, MO | 1.0 | 250 | $600,000 | ||
| April 2 | 7:35 PM CDT | EF0 | Crittenden, AR | 3.1 | 75 | $30,000 | ||
| April 2 | 7:35 PM CDT | EF2 | Johnson, IL | 6.2 | 250 | $525,000 | ||
| April 2 | 7:46 PM CDT | EF1 | Steuben, IN to MI | 10.8 | 600 | $200,000 | ||
| April 2 | 8:49 PM EDT | EF1 | Branch, MI | 3.7 | 125 | $50,000 | ||
| April 2 | 7:51 PM CDT | EF1 | Williamson, IL | 3.3 | 75 | $175,000 | ||
| April 2 | 8:00 PM CDT | EF2 | Carlisle, KY | 9.7 | 200 | $180,000 | ||
| April 2 | 9:05 PM EDT | EF2 | Hendricks, IN | 13.0 | 200 | 1 | $1.2 million | |
| April 2 | 8:14 PM CDT | EF1 | Saline, IL | 5.0 | 300 | $85,000 | ||
| April 2 | 9:15 PM EDT | EF1 | Hendricks, IN | 1.5 | 300 | $200,000 | ||
| April 2 | 8:15 PM CDT | EF1 | Dyer, TN | 4.7 | 100 | $1.9 million | ||
| April 2 | 8:18 PM CDT | EF2 | Ballard, KY | 18.2 | 1,000 | 4 | $3.2 million | |
| April 2 | 8:23 PM CDT | EF1 | Gallatin, IL | 9.2 | 100 | $170,000 | ||
| April 2 | 9:28 PM EDT | EF1 | Hamilton, IN | 6.6 | 150 | $600,000 | ||
| April 2 | 8:35 PM CDT | EF1 | Obion, TN | 9.3 | 350 | $325,000 | ||
| April 2 | 9:43 PM EDT | EF2 | Madison, IN to IL, KY | 2.1 | 250 | $200,000 | ||
| April 2 | 8:43 PM CDT | EF2 | Livingston, IL to KY | 12.0 | 150 | $235,000 | ||
| April 2 | 9:46 PM EDT | EF1 | Madison, IN | 11.6 | 150 | $400,000 | ||
| April 2 | 8:51 PM CDT | EF2 | Vanderburgh, IN | 10.6 | 150 | $3.4 million | ||
| April 2 | 8:52 PM CDT | EF1 | Posey, IN | 1.1 | 75 | $1.2 million | ||
| April 2 | 9:52 PM EDT | EF0 | Madison, IN | 4.9 | 100 | $300,000 | ||
| April 2 | 8:55 PM CDT | EF1 | Vanderburgh, IN | 17.0 | 230 | $1.2 million | ||
| April 2 | 9:57 PM EDT | EF2 | Madison, IN | 15.2 | 200 | $3.2 million | ||
| April 2 | 9:00 PM CDT | EF2 | Weakley, TN | 6.4 | 350 | $250,000 |
What this means
Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.
Sources
NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.